APT Repositories¶

• Table of contents
• APT Repositories
  • Official
    • • Status
    • Build Types
    • Supported Distros and Architectures
    • Usage
      • 1. Install Required Packages and add the Repository PGP key
      • 2. Create/Add the Sources List
      • 3. Update Sources and Install
    • Help / Feedback
  • Third-party
    • What Happened to the Bintray Repository?
    • Help
    • Ubuntu PPA
      • Status
      • Usage
      • Help

Official¶

Our official repository and packages are provided by Doozer on https://apt.tvheadend.org.

Status¶

Development is the recommended choice for most people as Stable is very out-of-date at the moment.

2021/08/15 : Unstable builds are available for Debian Bullseye on amd64 and i386.

Please report any issues here - #5264.

Build Types¶

Build Type	Description	Version	Repo Component
Stable	Latest release and fixes	v4.2.7-*~githash	stable
Development	Development builds	v4.3.*-*~githash	unstable

But, where's release?!

We've decided not to offer "frozen" builds anymore, this is so that people get fixes much sooner. Those that are currently using release can modify their apt sources to stable, or continue as they are now, and move when they feel ready.

Supported Distros and Architectures¶

Rather than listing all the supported distros please take a look at the directory listing on apt.tvheadend.org for your chosen build type.

¹ Transcoding support is unavailable on some builds/distros.

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Usage¶

Here are some copy/paste examples on how to use the repo that should work for most².

1. Install Required Packages and add the Repository PGP key¶

sudo apt-get -y install coreutils wget apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates

sudo wget -qO- https://doozer.io/keys/tvheadend/tvheadend/pgp | sudo apt-key add -

Note: apt-key on some newer distros may fail as it's no longer available, in such cases please run the following command instead.

wget -qO- https://doozer.io/keys/tvheadend/tvheadend/pgp | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tvheadend.asc

² We assume you have sudo installed. If not, and you're root, you can omit sudo, otherwise please ask your administrator to..

apt-get install sudo; usermod -aG sudo <your account name>

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2. Create/Add the Sources List¶

Raspbian users (and anyone else who can't install/use lsb-release) please see the third footnote³.

Stable:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://apt.tvheadend.org/stable $(lsb_release -sc) main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list'

Unstable:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://apt.tvheadend.org/unstable $(lsb_release -sc) main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list'

³ Unfortunately you won't be able to use the command, at least not in the way it's shown, you need to replace " $(lsb_release -sc)" with "raspbian-stretch", "raspbian-jessie" or your distros code-name.

³⁰⁰¹ Examples..

echo "deb http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable raspbian-jessie main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list
echo "deb http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable raspbian-stretch main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list

³⁰⁰² Tip: If you want to use unstable, simply replace stable with unstable.

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3. Update Sources and Install¶

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tvheadend

Tip: On some installs (generally fresh ones) you might be asked to enter some details. If you'd like to reconfigure these details later, you can run..

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tvheadend

and afterwards..

sudo service tvheadend restart

Job done!

Help / Feedback¶

Please add to issue #5264 or join the IRC channel to report problems/give feedback.

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Third-party¶

Third-party repositories are provided as-is and supported by the person who manages them, we cannot guarantee that we'll be able to help with issues relating to the use of these packages/repositories. The older official Bintray is exempt from this (Yes we know it's not technically third party ).

In any case we'll try our best to help, or point you to where you can get some!

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What Happened to the Bintray Repository?¶

Unfortunately due to rate-limiting we've decided to stop/end the use of Bintray. Don't worry the repository won't be disappearing⁴, it just won't be updated - sorry about that.

You can continue to use Bintray if you like, old instructions can be viewed here.

Tip: You can use both apt.tvheadend.org and bintray.com/tvheadend

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Help¶

Please tell us here #5264, make sure you mention you're using Bintray. You can also join the IRC channel if you prefer.

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Ubuntu PPA¶

Unofficial PPAs are provided by Michael Marley that provide packages for Artful, Zesty, Yakkety, Xenial and so on for the amd64, arm64, armhf, i386 and ppc64el architectures.

Status¶

Please see here and here for PPA status.

Usage¶

1. Pick a Build Type

For the stable PPA containing daily builds from the latest stable branch:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mamarley/tvheadend-git-stable

For the unstable PPA containing daily builds from master:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mamarley/tvheadend-git

2. Update Sources

sudo apt update

3. Install

sudo apt install tvheadend

Help¶

If you experience issues with this PPA please contact Michael on IRC (mamarley in #hts on Freenode) or Launchpad.